[Steve Kaneb]

I like this exercise, it gets the students thinking and working with inventor.
I'd lean more towards total space savings and not worrying about victor repair.
As long as I've been on 190, and quite a few years before that, we've never had a problem with our victors.
The problem with an electrical box of this type is that often there simply isn't room in the robot to have everything electrical (and pneumatic in this case) centralized. The current design (which is well done and a great thing to do if possible) requires a significant amount of space on the robot, and space is the second most precious commodity on a FIRST robot.
The first most precious commodity is weight, and we've found that unless your robot has several pneumatic cylinders firing often during the match, 4 accumulators is far more than necessary. Our robot this year, which had the two major systems pneumatically actuated, got away with a compressor and 2 accumulators.
All in all, excellent way to get the students involved, keep thinking.

On an unrelated note: If you can afford it (and find them), I highly recommend using nylon bolts for mounting electronics. The bolts are just fasteners, and weight is always at a premium. We used them with great success this past year.